Police officials announced around midnight that a suspect had been caught, but they did not immediately indicate whether they were investigating the violence as an anti-Semitic hate crime
MONSEY, N.Y. — An intruder with a large knife burst into the home of a Hasidic rabbi in a New York suburb Saturday, stabbing five people just as they were gathering to light candles for Hanukkah, officials and a witness said.
Yossi Gestetner, a co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council, a group that covers New York and New Jersey, said one of the victims was the rabbi’s son. Green, who lives nearby, said she tried to drive near the rabbi’s home but found Forshay Road blocked off by a long line of ambulances and police cars.
“Law enforcement in Rockland will leave no stone unturned as they bring those guilty of this crime to swift and severe justice,” Day said in a statement. The ultra-Orthodox population has surged in recent years as Hasidic families from Queens and Brooklyn, priced out of their neighbourhoods, moved to the suburbs.
Three people, two of them Orthodox Jews, were killed at the market, which was at the centre of a growing Hasidic Jewish community.
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